SAMUEL K. BEAMON

Lt. Colonel David Caldon USMC (RET) - Pilot HMM-164 (67) Sliver Star recipient at Khe Sahn (68)

Review date: 09/22/2007

I received your wonderful book. It is one that I"'ll read again very soon, as it caused many wonderful memories come flooding back to me, and you filled in many gaps in my memory that were wonderful. I guess that one of the most poignant parts was at the very beginning when you were growing up. For the first in my life I saw a part of America's humanity that I had never come to appreciate, that of the trials and tribulations of a young Black American coping with prejudice and adversity, and I think that lead-in was critical and instrumental to all that followed.